
Photo: Karen Lone, Norsk Polarinstitutt
By Karen Lone, Benjamin Merkel, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Jon Aars
Polar bears use sea ice as a primary hunting habitat. Climate change is causing major declines in this unique habitat...

Juvenile Microtus pennsylvanicus, North Dakota
By Quentin Read
Ecologists have collected reams of field data, involving much sweat and toil, to explain how competing species — those with similar diets or habitat preferences —...

Figure 1. Example of co-occurrence network based on presence data. a) Co-occurrence network with locations (green filled circles) and taxa (blue filled circles) and b) Binary matrix of species co-occurrences.
By Francisco...

By Spyros Theodoridis
Cold-adapted taxa are experiencing severe range shifts due to climate change and are expected to suffer a significant reduction of their climatically suitable habitats in the next few decades. However, it has been proposed...
By David Bauman
In what context was our study undertaken? Eigenvector mapping techniques are widely used by ecologists and evolutionary biologists to describe and control for spatial and/or phylogenetic patterns in their data....

At 1000 m a.s.l., a paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) consumes fruits of Myrsine coriacea.
By Marta Quitián, Vinicio Santillán, Carlos Iván Espinosa, Jürgen Homeier, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Matthias Schleuning and...

Credits - Valerio Giacomini (1958) La Flora - Conosci L'italia, Touring Club Italiano. Milano
By: Francesco Maria Sabatini
It's a fact. Biodiversity is not uniformly distributed over the Earth's surface. Some regions are lush with a rich...

By: Mathieu Denoel
We aimed at examining whether distinct breeding site fidelity strategies may coexist at the intra-population level and how breeding resource characteristics and individual phenotype may affect these strategies in pond-breeding...

By: Marco Isaia, Stefano Mammola and Sara Goodacre
Despite the impact of global climate change being documented on a broad
range of biotas, the effects of altered temperatures on biological
communities...

By Thomas Connor
A large body of work in ecology of conservation is devoted to figuring out where species truly are and what causes them to be in some places and not others. Termed species distribution modeling, or SDM for short, this...
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